Admiral Quote by Thomas Sydenham

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men…

— Thomas Sydenham

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than…

— Thomas Sydenham

“The gout is a complaint as arises from too much ease and comfort. If ever you're attacked with the gout, sir, jist you marry…

— Charles Dickens

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

— Ambrose Bierce

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

— Thomas Browne

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

— Moliere

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

— Mary Wortley Montagu

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

— Charles Peguy

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

— Anonymous

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

— Josh Billings

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

— Gottfried Leibniz

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out,…

— Henry Fielding